My favorite book is Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy. It is a great history lesson (non-fiction book) about the "original" hacker mentality. Not like the wannabe hackers of today, aka script kiddies, who do it for malicious reasons (black hatters) in many cases.
I also love true crime books. My favorite author is probably John Douglas. He is a former FBI profiler. I like the psychological approach he takes with a lot of his books. He likes to write in the mind set of the criminal and the crime they did.
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